On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate your efforts of coming up with some sh styleguide. A side > note to that, I prefer calling test explicitely, instead of using the > weirdo [ ] symlinks in while/if statements. > > Nevertheless, after an excursion to sh for several years, I'm kind of > favouring 9base/rc again, after all. For stali I now tend to adopt rc > as primary scripting language for the target system as well. For the > build host environment I would rather stick to sh+make instead of > rc+mk. We have to live with the fact that a build host environment is > poisoned with crap bloat to hell anyways. But for ideal target system, > we should stick to technologies that have been designed with clarity > and cleanliness in mind. rc is the perfect example for a decent shell > environment. > > When I started 9base and Uriel started werc and other rc-based stuff, > we concluded that one cannot really write portable scripts with sh. > You have to rely on a defined userland. The Plan 9 derived userland > offers this definition. I agree that sbase goes into a similar > direction, but the danger remains when using sh, that some stuff will > end up in pretty mixed environments. > > For serious stuff like werc, rc was the right choice, because it > relies on this definite userland environment and hence does not allow > for ambiguity. > > I just wanted to mention this, as this is one of my very recent > decisions about stali's future. > > BR, > Anselm >
Well that makes the suckless.org shell styleguide nice and simple: Use rc. I like that.
